Nigeria’s Former President Goodluck Jonathan was in Abuja last Tuesday with the launch of a book titled “Dear President Goodluck Jonathan, An Open Letter.”
Watching his speech, Goodluck Jonathan appear to walk with a swag.
Watch this video at Tuesday’s book launch conceived to bring together the men scattered in different Nigeria’s political camps but joined together by the Jonathan project together.
The book that was apparently purposely meant to reawaken the love relationship between Nigeria and Jonathan.
The launch in Abuja was a politically framed affair that was masterminded by some of the nation’s most politically savvy operators.
What could have brought some of the country’s most contrasting political operatives like Senator Dino Melaye and Governor Abdullahi Ganduje under the same roof must only have been the work of a sleek political machine.
Even more remarkable was the profuse confessions from some of those who were in the frontline of the opposition to Dr Jonathan in 2015. Senator Melaye made his formal apologies to Dr Jonathan saying he now knows better after leading the choir that demonized President Jonathan.
Even more remarkable was the verbalization by Ganduje that the emergence of His Royal Highness, Muhammad Sanusi as emir of Kano was purposely to spite Jonathan as president.
What is happening is that Dr Jonathan has become a pawn in a political power game that transcends across the political divide. Even above and beyond him.
The script conceived by Northerners from within the highest levers of power according to sources within the operation, see Dr Jonathan as the only one that can stabilize the polity after the present divisions characteristic of the Muhammadu Buhari administration.